S/H Beginner Haraella retrocalla

[Optimist]

My haraella retrocalla likes to be in a closed "terrarium" with a mister that is on long enough to cause condensation. A few hours per day. I have a flower spike so I suppose my care is working out. I am always at the goodwill looking for cheap cool air room humidifiers.



See that little green spike?

Another way I have kept this is to fill a plastic shoe box with wet, wrung out spagham moss and then laid the stick it is mounted on upon the wet moss. A top would be better. I would keep it like this only for short periods of time.

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Originally Posted by Optimist

...plastic shoe box....

There is a tiny milkweed vine Hoya curtisii that I always killed within days. It has amazingly patterned leaves. I put a cutting from a friend on top of slightly damp potting soil in a foam egg container lid and put it into a shoe box, then under my lights. It took off growing like a weed. Even if I don't water it for months and the medium dries out completely it looks good.

[Optimist]

Originally Posted by estación seca

There is a tiny milkweed vine Hoya curtisii that I always killed within days. It has amazingly patterned leaves. I put a cutting from a friend on top of slightly damp potting soil in a foam egg container lid and put it into a shoe box, then under my lights. It took off growing like a weed. Even if I don't water it for months and the medium dries out completely it looks good.

I think they call this method sphag and bag. It is meant to be temporary due to air flow, but if you can get the air flow, there is no reason why It could not be full time.

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Originally Posted by Optimist

It is meant to be temporary due to air flow,...

A shoe box doesn't seal tightly so there is always a little air exchange. If I soak the soil it is usually dry within 2-3 weeks.

I should have mentioned, I have the shoe box upside down. The inverted lid forms the floor; the egg container lid sits on the inside of the shoe box lid; and the shoe box itself sits inverted over the egg container lid, snapped into the shoe box lid. This way more light may enter the apparatus.